Patrick Dean

Patrick Dean (16 March 1909-5 November 1994) was the British ambassador to the United States from 1965 to 1969, succeeding David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech and preceding John Freeman.

Biography
Patrick Dean was born in Berlin, Germany on 16 March 1909, and he became a Civil Service diplomat after graduating from Cambridge, having failed to become a lawyer. He served as a legal adviser at the Yalta Conference of February 1945 and at the Potsdam Conference of July-August 1945, and he also served as an advisor during the Nuremberg Trials. From 1965 to 1969, he served as Ambassador to the United States, promoting greater mutual understanding between the two governments, but facing a President who was hostile to foreign diplomats. He died in Kingston, Surrey in 1994 at the age of 85.